Het Huis der Aleramiden was een middeleeuws Italiaans adellijk geslacht dat zijn machtsbasis had in het noordwesten van Italië. In de loop der eeuwen breidden zij hun gebieden uit en splitste de familie zich in verschillende takken.
Als stamvader van de Aleramiden geldt Willem I van Monferrato, een uit West-Francië afkomstige Frank die rond 888 naar Italië komt om Guido van Spoleto te helpen de IJzeren Kroon te bemachtigen. Willems zoon Aleramo wordt markgraaf van het nieuwe markgraafschap West-Ligurië. Naar hem is het geslacht genoemd. Aleramos zoon Anselm I en kleinzoon Willem III verdelen West-Ligurië.
Willem krijgt het noordelijke gedeelte als het markgraafschap Monferrato. Zijn nakomelingen blijven aan de macht tot de laatste mannelijke telg Johan de Rechtvaardige in 1305 kinderloos overleed.
Tegen het eind van de twaalfde eeuw had deze tak van de familie een flinke machtsbasis in Piemonte en waren door huwelijk verwant aan onder andere de Capetingen en de Hohenstaufers. Leden van het geslacht namen geregeld deel aan de kruistochten en werden heersers van het Koninkrijk Jeruzalem. Verschillende leden huwden met leden van de Byzantijnse keizerlijke families Komnenos, Angelos en Palaiologos. Na de Vierde Kruistocht stichtten zij ook het Koninkrijk Thessaloniki.
Anselm, stamvader van de jongere tak Del Vasto, krijgt het zuidelijke gedeelte, dat voorlopig West-Ligurië blijft heten. Zijn gebieden worden onder zijn nazaten verdeeld, zodat het gebied in de loop der tijd zeer versnipperd raakt en bestaat uit verschillende kleine markgraafschappen, zoals Saluzzo (tot 1548) en Finale en Noli (tot 1602). Deze tak was weer onderverdeeld in verschillende linies, waarvan de Del Carretto's het bekendst zijn. Ook tegenwoordig bestaan er nog een aantal van deze linies.
William I (floruit 924) stands at the head of the Aleramici family which ruled Montferrat for four centuries. He was the father of the first margrave Aleram.
According to the Gesta Berengarii Imperatoris, William was a Frank who crossed the Alps leading 300 armed retainers in 888889 to fight alongside Guy III of Spoleto against Berengar of Friuli for the Iron Crown of Lombardy. He apparently established himself in northwestern Italy, probably supported by Guy, where he eventually received the title of comes. It is also probable that he gave his support to Berengar after Guy's death, for he appears, in 921, along with Lambert, Archbishop of Milan, and two other counts, Giselbert and Samson, as dilectissimi fideles of the Emperor. The counts were also cited as illustres comites. They stood opposed to Adalbert of Ivrea and others in rebellion against Berengar.
William transferred his allegiance again following the death of Berengar. He appears for the last time alive in 924, intervening on behalf of the bishop of Piacenza with Rudolf II of Burgundy, a claimant for the Italian crown. Never again does he appear in history and a diploma of his son's dating to around 933 fixes his death sometime between those two years (924 933). Nonetheless, some, including 18th-century historian Malaspina and 20th-century historians Usseglio and Cognasso (writing in 1960), consider him to have been alive in 961, based on a faulty reading and interpretation of the foundation charter of the monastery of Grazzano, founded that year by Aleram and his family.
Various legendary assertions about his Saxon and Kentish origins and the origins of his wife have been met by the definitive Dizionario Biografico with the pronouncement: Ma tali asserzioni non sono ancora state seriamente coinprovate da documenti: "But such assertions are not yet seriously backed up by the documents."
The Aleramici were a medieval family of Italian nobility of Frank[1] origins which ruled various northwestern counties and marches, in Piedmont and Liguria from the tenth to the 14th century.
History
The founder of the family was William I of Montferrat, a Frank, who came over to Italy in 888 or 889 to aid his fellow Frank Guy III of Spoleto in a quest for the Iron Crown of Lombardy. His son Aleram was the first to carry the title marchio or margrave.
By the 12th century, the Aleramici were one of the most considerable in Piedmont, related to the Capetians and the Hohenstaufen. Members of the family participated frequently in the Crusades, and became kings and queens of Jerusalem. They also married into the Byzantine imperial families of Comnenus, Angelus, and Palaeologus and, as a result of the Fourth Crusade, founded the Latin Kingdom of Thessalonica.
Conrad of Montferrat (or Conrad I of Jerusalem) (Italian: Corrado di Monferrato; Piedmontese: Conrà ëd Monfrà) (mid-1140s 28 April 1192) was a northern Italian nobleman, one of the major participants in the Third Crusade. He was the de facto King of Jerusalem, by marriage, from 24 November 1190, but officially elected only in 1192, days before his death. He was also marquis of Montferrat from 1191.
At the end of the 11th century the family was split into two main branches: one ruled Montferrat until 1305; the other (Del Vasto) ruled the south of Piedmont and western Liguria. In the middle of 12th century the Del Vasto family branched again into several lines, governing smaller marquisates, such as Saluzzo (from 1135 to 1548), Finale (ruled by the Del Carretto from 1135 to 1602), Ceva, Busca and Clavesana. The Del Carretto had many collateral lines in Piedmont, in Sicily and apparently even in France (de la Charrette). On the other hand the Lancia are a branch of tha marquesses of Busca.
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